topic Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001) in Operating System - HP-UX

Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Kimberly Ann — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:10:12 GMT

Hi Everyone,

This is thread is part of an ongoing effort to capture your feedback concerning any issues you encounter while using the ITRC Forums. All the feedback from the September 2001 thread has been documented.

Again, please inform me regarding any issues you experience while using the Forums. Please include the URLs from your browser associated with error messages (along with the date and time the error occurred).

I thank you for all your previous feedback, and look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Dan
ITRC Forums Manager

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:56:35 GMT

Hi Dan,

Got this error a minute or two aback when accessing forum.

Error processing SSI file
'/cm/FamilyHomeContent/1,11868,LoggedIn!117,00.html'

thanks

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

someone_4 — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:15:46 GMT

Hey Dan ..
Maybe its me where but the search was down last weekend. It is working now but the search results are weird. I used to be able to do a search and actully bring more archive post on what I was looking for. Now it seems that my searches are only bringing up newer post.

Richard

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:20:18 GMT

Hi Dan.

This one only happend to me once but i was logged in on my own account and after a refresh i was logged in as a complete different user, so i refreshed again and the problem was solved.

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Jasper Verweij — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:21:52 GMT

Dan,

if I add a hyperlink to a message I have to hit the spacebar after inserting the link otherwise the link will be longer than I want to (see also http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xfcf5660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html) <--this one is wrong, correct one is http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xfcf5660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html ). On one hand I expect this to work normal (system doesn't know when hyperlink ends), but in front of the link it doesn't matter if I have added a space or not. Is this normal behaviour or could it be changed. Is the system triggered by the entering http???

Jasper

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Jasper Verweij — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:26:31 GMT

Another one...Toon Verschoor and Arthur van de Waal are HP-colleagues of you, but they don't get the HP engineer logo in front of their names.

Jasper

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Jasper Verweij — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:45:40 GMT

sorry, again me, I was just thinking, I don't know an easy way to see all messages I've started.

I assigned points to 17 of 19 messages and I would like to see which messages didn't get points.

I thought there was an easy way to see this, but I couldn't find it. I would like to see a link on the profile page which is similar like the "more" link for replies that a member posted that were rated between 8-10 points

Jasper

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

paul courry — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:02:36 GMT

Dan, I *may* have already reported this....

1. Change ownership of ITRC system handle
2. When you go to share access you are NOT the owner, it requires that you log out and log back in for it to recognize you as the owner.
3. You may then share access with others

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Deshpande Prashant — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:25:44 GMT

Hi Dan
I'm getting this error today, twice so far.
I was log out and needed to login in again.

Error processing SSI file '/cm/CategoryHomeContent/1,11869,LoggedIn!251,00.html'

Prashant.

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Clay Porter — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 18:03:38 GMT

Can this site run on a faster machine?

It is extremely slow to load!

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:27:04 GMT

Hi Dan:

OK, me, the pest again:

It seems that the Forum Search now returns links in the "new" format [thanks].

BUT: It seems that the Forum Search is quite a few bricks short of a load. I did a simple test search for 'fbackup' [a very, hot topic] and got back a grand total of fourteen (14) results. I'd expect the currrent maximum of fifty (50). Interestingly, of the fourteen entries, one went as far back as May 24; another was from August 6; and the remainder were September 21 - October 3.

Something is not right.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Wodisch — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:26:17 GMT

Hello Dan,

the "search" is delivering the 5-digit links, now, but the
replies inside the threads are not (yet?) converted, as
I just noticed here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x088cabe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

In there are at least to references to the old-style "1150"
URLs...

Would it be acceptable for the other forumers to just a
"conversion-table" shown or linked on the forums page
showing something like:
...in case of 404 substitute the four-digit codes from the
first column with the 5-digit code in the second column:

old new
1150 11866
.
.
.

at least until everything IS converted?
BTW, is that kind of conversion "Yet Another Enhancement Request", or is it already scheduled?

The "search" is still delivering only up to 50 results,
but as I am used to "sort" for "posting date", I seem
to be getting the ones I am looking for...

Regards,
Wodisch

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Marcin Wicinski — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:01:42 GMT

Hi Dan,

ITRC has been working very good for last 5 days. I had no error messages, and response time was very short in comparison with the past.

Regards,

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:10:22 GMT

Hi Dan:

As I already noted to you elsewhere, the links referenced by many of us *within* threads have not yet (?) been converted from '1150' to '11866'.

These need to be programmatically corrected, *but* let's not let the update of the thread change its 'last-post-date' lest the changed threads appear as current ones! This actually happened to a small extent about 6-9 months ago when the Networking category was moved from what is now Management Software family to the HP-UX family.

Your comments would be welcome.

Thanks!

...JRF...

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Wodisch — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:25:07 GMT

Hello again, Dan!

In the thread below Jasper posted a reference to
another page, but his URL has been converted badly...
It seems to me like you have to add a space to the end
of URLs in replies, or else the everything up to a space
is included as URL...

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xfcf5660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Oh, could it be, that there is NO 1:1 relation of "old" and
"new" codes within the URLs? Like 1150<->11866?

And to say something positive: the forums are quite fast
today!

Regards,
Wodisch

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:50:32 GMT

Dan,

How about starting a forum for those ppl looking for or posting jobs. I've seen a couple of request for HP admins on the main list already. Just a thought.

-Santosh

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Timothy Czarnik — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:57:01 GMT

Dan,

I was the author of the recent post "Wouldn't it be neat to own a monkey". I never realized the tidal wave of people looking to wade into such a thorny issue as this one. :)

Was wondering if there is a way to be able to assign points to all responses at the same time, rather than one by one. Perhaps when the author of a question hits an "Assign Points" button, you're shown the entire thread, and each response has the 1-10 pulldown next to it so you can assign points to multiple responses.

Just a thought. I've assigned points to 48 responses so far, and its kind of time consuming. However, its a small sacrifice to get to the bottom of what could be described as the "Holy Grail" of Unix administration queries.

-Tim

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:58:26 GMT

Hi Dan:

Hey! How about REMOVING any *user* that posts job solicitation or advertising!!! I, for one, don't want to see this site degenerate into that kind of exchange. IMHO there are appropriate places designed for those things and that's where they should stay.

...JRF...

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Kimberly Ann — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:59:24 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I want to update you on the recent change to the format of URLs found inside the ITRC Forums.

Recently, the ITRC Forums database was reindexed to improve overall performance. The performance measure reorganized the index data into a more performance-minded traversal path. Consequently, the index numbers/locations of URLs in the database changed when the indexes were rebuilt.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you when trying to access URLs that either you have bookmarked or find embedded inside of forums messages. A workaround is described below for the three most often bookmarked or embedded page types --> forums home page, forum families, and message threads.

**Forums Home**
The Forum's home page URL is now:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/Home/1,,,00.html

**Forum Families**
URLs that point to forum families previously had the following format:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,1148,117,00.html

If you have a family page URL bookmarked, you will need to remove the reference number "1148" found in the URL, as in the example below of the same URL above:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,117,00.html

**Message Post Pages**
URLs that point to pages of message threads previously had the following format:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xcfe4660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

If you have a thread URL bookmarked, you will need to remove the reference number "1150" found in the URL, as in the example below of the same URL above:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xcfe4660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

I don't have any information regarding converting the embedded URLs that are found inside of messages, as Jim Ferguson has requested. Please standby for more.

Again, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may bring to you, and appreciate your understanding of this matter.

Best Regards,
Dan

Re: Please Report Forums Issues! (10/2/2001)

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:17:31 GMT

Just got this error a few minutes ago when trying to reload the HP-UX forum homepage;

Error processing SSI file '/cm/FamilyHomeContent/1,11868,LoggedIn!117,00.html'